Hiiii! I am an illustrator

and designerfrom Karachi, based in Berlin. I make comics and animations about friendship, collectivism, joy, romance, anger and rest, and design for print publications and exhibitions, often working with archives, zines and conversations.

Unsettled Earth
Soft Gardens
Childhood
Other Maps & Guides
Sketching Silence

Miss Read 2023

The Juggernaut: Editorial Illustrations

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Unsettled Earth

Graphic design for exhibition, 2025
at Spore Initiative, Berlin

Rooted in collaborations with grassroots agrarian initiatives and collectives in Palestine organizing around defense of land, communal autonomy, and ecological recovery, Unsettled Earth explores practices and infrastructures that construct relations of land and life anew amid ongoing settler-colonial violence and ecological catastrophe. At this critical juncture of the seemingly boundless acceleration of genocidal violence and settler expansion in Palestine and its neighboring geography, the project asks: How is the environment mobilized as an apparatus of violence and elimination? How do we construct a horizon beyond settler colonialism and its regimes of law and property? What is the relationship between working the land and liberating it? How can those who have been exiled from their land continue to resist its expropriation?

Unsettled Earth gestures toward an aspiration for an unsettled world, a world where colonial structures of domination, extraction, and ecological destruction no longer define the relationship between the people and the land. Thinking with the writings of Nasser Abourahme, we propose to understand the practices of unsettling not just as a disruption of the present state of affairs, but also as the cultivation of a counter-temporality: an unruly, fugitive time that exists beneath and beyond the linear, oppressive time of the colony. The various trajectories explored here are not just about survival in the face of ongoing dispossession, they are a political refusal of the settler order’s permanence and an opening onto an uncaptured future.

Commissioned by Spore Initiative, this project is curated by Joud Al-Tamimi and Lama El Khatib.

Exhibition with Ahmad Alaqra, Ammanah Lamara and Heiba Lamara, Asphalt, Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme, Bayan Abu Nahla, Jumana Manna, Kamal Aljafari, Moayed Abu Ammouna, Rana Nazzal Hamadeh, Sliman Mansour, and others.

Photo courtesy of Mehwish Zuberi; more images to come!

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